The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-17 00:00:00

MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING, at Fight. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. A VOLUNTEER NIGHT THIS EVENING. Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs ; Mr. Weiss (for this night only), Mr. T. Harper, Mr. Crozier, and Ali Ben Sou-alle.— The Faust Selection, Ac. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphithea're, One Shilling ; Dress Circle, 2s. Cd. ; Private Boxes, £1 is. and 10s. On Monday next , a GOUSTOD NIGHT. The Band of the G enadier Guards, in adoition to the OT CheStr9. ot One Hun dredrertormers and the Band of the Coldstream Guards. On Thursday next, the Third bIENDELSSWIN NIGHT On Friday next, a HA.NDEL THE A TRF, ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Mr. BUCKSTONE respectfully informs his friends and the public that this The are µwill o, en on MONDAY next, Sept. 19, to commence at 7 .th a Ballet, entitled BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, in whica the Messrs. Arthur .nd Charles Leclereq, with Miss Carols .: e Adams and Miss Fanny Wrif.r,ht, will appear. After wine,. at halt-past 7, O'Keefe's revived Comic Opera of T liE CAST 1,141 A.NDALUSEA. Don Caesar, Mr. Weis., who will sing the original songs, "Flow thou regal purple stream," " On by the spur of valour goaded," bnd .• The Wolf ;" Don Alphonso, Mr. Arthur Mathison, with the original song, " 11, hardy sailor br.:vea the ocean" and " The ba.i ~f the roe ;" Doe ci j io. Mr. Chippendale ; D m Fer nando, Mr. W. Farren ; Spada (a robber), Mr. Buckstone ; Pedrillo, with "A master I have, and I am his man," Mr. Compton ; Don Juan, Mr. Rogers ; Sanguine, Mr. Braid ; Victoria, Miss Nelly Moore; Catalina, with "Two strings to hi • bo s," Miss Louise Feeley' Donna Isabella,Mrs.Griffiths ; Donna Lorenzo, Madame Weiss, who wills ng " Ah t why rd co we loved" (Hatton), "Love is a gen tle thing" (Howa (waver', and " The lark n:w leav es her watery nest" (Hatton). To be followed by (first time at this Theatre Morto (hnis 's Farce of FRIEND 'W AGG-LES. Horatio Waggles original character), Mr. Compton. After " Friend Waggles," ' G o d save the Queen" will be sung by Mr. 'Weiss, Mr. A. Matthison, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fosbroke, Madame Weiss, and the entire company. Concluding with A KISS IN DARK. On Monday, Oct. 3, will be produced aversion of Alexander Durnas's play of " Mademoiselle de Belle Isle," the Engli h version by Frances Anne Kemble, in which Madlte. Beatrice Lucchesin!, ot the Odeon and Vaudeville, Paris, will make her first appearance in England. In rehearsal, a new Farce, by the Author of "Box and Cox," in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr, Rogers, Mr. Wafer Gordon, Miss Snowdon, and Mrs. E. Fitzwil iam will appear. The box-office till be opened on Saturday next, Sept, 17, anti daily from 10 5, under the dirt.ction of Mr. G. Turpin. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma .Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. W THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- sole Pronrlator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. Messrs. Toole and Billington. After which, 4th time, STEPHEN DIGGES. Messrs. J. L. Poole, It. Phillips, BitWigton, Stephenson; Mrs. Billing - ton, Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon. And T EIE BlkBE THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L.Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. A. Mellon, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINKN f TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular Theatre is now Open for the Winter Se ison. THIS EVENING (tor the eth time) Mr. Arthur Sketchly's highly-successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL THEY . GE V OUT OF IT. After which, F. C. Burnand's Laughable Travestie of FAUST AND 3IARGUERITE. To conclude with UNDER. THE ROSE. Those cele brated artists Mr. and Mrs. Char es Mathews are re-engaged. Mrt. 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THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Evening; by ENRY BROOKS, newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAY.—Moruing, 2'a. 40m.—Afternoon, 3').. 3m. J-goanow.-Morming, 3i. 24cn.—Afternoon, 31. 50m. t- • LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 1864. The summary of news which has reached us from I China by the Calcutta mail contains nothing very striking. We have of course no confirmation of the report that Nankin had fallen into the hands of the Imperialists, an event which, if it has really taken place, would exercise a most important influence on the war, and in fact virtually conclude the rebellion by depriving the Taepings of their principal strong hold. According to the China 'Vail of July 29 the retirement of Col. GORDON from active service had apparently arrested the progress of affairs. An expeditionary force from Soochow had indeed Elle ceciled in capturing the walled city of Chameing, but not much else was doing. Chan-sing lies between Woochow and Y,..-sing, and was abandoned by the Taepings curing one of GoRDoN'S marches, but was afterwards rtoecupied by them. It i 8 CLit fly important from its position with regard to Woochow, a city of f-o ne consideration. The re tirement of Colonel GORDON is openly deplored by this • journal as protracting indt.fiL.i!ely the termi nation of the war ; and the siege of the two cities, Nankin and Woochow, which, under his assaults, would probably have been speedily reduced to sub jection. However, it seems that, although retired frill] active service in the field, Colonel Goit U 0 N. has by no means abandoned the Irnpe, rislist C.ILISf.'. The reported capture of Nan kin is rendered probable by the fact of his having personally visited that city and insp ec t e d its walls, going so close to then as 50 yards dis tance. On his return he communicated the result of his survey, with his advice thereupon, to the Chinese Commander-in-Chief, who was probably very glad to profit by the hints of so able and expe• rienced a commander, notwithstanding the exalted dignity of Chinese officials. But Col. GORDON'S assistance is being carried still further, and it is questionable whether the anti-Chinese members of the House of Commons who have so often assaulted the Premier on the ground of his Chinese policy will think he has altogether kept his pledges of non-intenvention. On Col. GORDON'S return to Shanghae he commenced the formation of a camp of instruction under General BROWN'S orders. The object of this camp is partly to protect Shanghae and its vicinity, as we are by treaty bound to do, an partly to instruct the Chinese in that military science in which they are so sadly deficient. As the operations extend beyond the 30 mile radius which 1 we are pledged to protect, they are beyond that limit conducted by native commanders, since, owing to the recent Order in Council, officers in her Majesty's service can no longer act on the other side of the line. The plan proposed is that fresh regiments shall continually succeed each other, so that all may receive some degree of military instruc tion. Col. GORDON is to be the manager, and he is to have the assistance of several officers and drill instructors, but no foreigners are to take the field. Whether it is not fulfilling the letter of the order rather than its spirit to train and equip soldiers for the field without actually leading them may very fairly be questioned. It is true that this arrange• ment disposes of the fear openly expressed by a large party at home, and no doubt secretly felt among the Chinese, that our assistance to the Impe rialists is a mere pretext for Chinese conquests. The Chinese authorities are, of course, delighted with a scheme of such practical benefit to them selves. It is, of course, very pleasant to get their men instructed in the very points in which they are most deficient, such as artillery rractice and like, and to get supplies of arms, and all under the pretext of protecting Shanghae. The protection of that port is of itself a substantial advantage to the Chinese, and there is no question but that acute and commercial people are beginning to comprehend the value of dealings with Western nations. The Treaty has ccme into operation at an unfavourable epoch, when some of the most fertile and pro fitable districts of the Empire were devastated by rebel invasions. The silk districts have especially suffered from their ravages, but the unsettled condition of large portions of the country is most inimical to other branches of trade. Some parts have changed hands more than once during the war, and are of course altogether disturbed and convulsed by such transi tions. Those places that have been retaken from the rebels are still unsettled, for the inhabitants have very naturally no confidence in Imperial pro tection for themselves or their property, while the great losses which many of the former inhabitants have suffered in their flight, renders them unable to profit much, even by their return. Of coarse such a state of things cannot but be most prejudi cial to all the best interests of the people, and it is no great wonder that the Imperialist rulers should be glad to avail themselves of European assistance to restore tranquility to the distracted provinces. They must, by this time, deplore the infatuated folly that induced them to deprive themselves of so valuable an auxiliary as Colonel GORDON. He is, it is true, in a manner still lending them his aid, but it is not altogether in a satisfactory way. It is undoubtedly giving that material aid to the Chinese which we have publicly declared we would not give, and it is entrusting them with arms which there is no confidence that they will employ worthily. Chinese soldiers are certainly not to be 'ru3ted without English leaders, and the real dif ference of cruelty and barbarism lies less between Teeping and Imperialist than between success and failure. Wnichever side has the advantage will abuse it, until China is something very different from what it is now. There is not much need to fear, as some do, that their arms will be turned against ourselves, since a good deal of drilling will be needed before Chinese, led by Chinese, can face Englishmen, but there is some reason for doubting how far the experiment will prove satisfactory. The dinner of the Tipperary Farming Union Society gave occasion to Lord STANLEY to make a long speech upon Irish affairs in general; and these remarks are worthy of notice, coming, as they do from one who always thinks before he speaks, and has generally some wise suggestion to make. The topic of Ireland has become, for one reason or another, rather an awkward one, and many persons have become so desponding, that it is refreshing to hear Lord STANLEY discourse in so hopeful a tone compared to other speakers on the subject. Per.. hapa if the Irish themselves and their friends and advisers were generally to take a more sanguine view of their case they would get on better and not meet with so many checks in their career of pro sperity. Lord STANLEY referred to the question of the extensive emigration that has taken place from Ireland at some length. lle said that if he thought 'this drain was b 3 continuous he should deplore it greatly, but he did not believe it would centinne for long. The attractions to America are so great that it cannot be wondered at that many avail themselves of it, and when we consider the vast sums which are sent home by previous emigrants, and the pro spects which many possess of meeting their friends and families there of course mitigate the regret at parting from the land of their birth. Lord STAN LEY attributes the great increase of emigrants to the present state of things across the Atlantic. This is very likely to be the case ; for the high rate paid to labourers now must prove a great temptation to those who are in want, or at all events are greatly in need of increasing their means of support. Of course this position of affairs cannot last long, and then the evil will be in a great measure removed. Another point suggested by Lord STANLEY is of consequence as bearing allusion to circumstances which may effect the prosperity of the population of Ireland. It will most probably occur that as the supply of labour decreases the rate of weges will increase, and hence the working population of Irela n d w ia gra dually attain the means of support at a greatly im proved ratio. Judging the future by the past, there is every reason to suppose that this may be true, for already there is evidence of more being earned than previously by the same amount of work. The noble lord's observations on the sub- ject of cheap labour were very true, and gave great satisfaction to his beArere. What can be more to the mark than that low priced labour is not always cheap labour. This has been proved many times and oft by sad experience, and it will seldom be seen that they vaao grind the faces of the poor, and strive to stint them to the utmost, are those who in reality get well served and are more prosperous than their neighbours. It will certainly mitigate the evils of emigration if it turn out that those who remain at home are better paid for their work. It is a deplorable picture to see the market of labour overstocked with human produce, and men with families dependent on them striving in vain to sup port them even while exerting themselves to the utmost. Looking at the subject in a practical form, there is no reason whatever to doubt that the opinion of Lord STANLEY will be verified, and that we shall find that the " American demand for emigrants will slacken, and the rate of Irish weges will rise." Another solution of ,Lord STANLEY'S as to the causes of the decrease in the population of Ireland was a satisfactory one. He said that many went to other parts of the United Kingdom. For instance, in Liverpool alone and the district immediately surrounding it, there are no less than a hundred thousand persons who have been born in Ireland. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) RUSSIA AND POLAND. WARSAW, SEPT. 17. It is stated on reliable authority that important decrees in reference to Poland will be issued next week. The establishment of Universities and the abolis tion of corporal punishment are among the subjects for which the decrees will provi le. An Imperial ukase to General Berg will appear at the same time. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 17. The Moniteur of this morning says :—Private despatches received here announce that negotiations are in progress with the object of prolonging until the 15th December the armistice between Denmark and Germany, which expired on Thursday last." BOURSE, Sept. 16.—The Three per Cents. are quoted to-day ex dividend, and are now at 66f. Business continues without animation: Mobilier remains unvaried at 1,012 f. 50c. Little or nothing doing in Railway Shares. Threes slightly receded, and Mobilier improved towards the close. Business finiLhed as follows 41 per Cents. 9O Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 90 Credit Mobilier 1005 Do. and month 102 3 Bank Shares 3400 Credit F ancier ..• — Roman — THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1864; 'Per the China,viaßoche't3 Point, Sept. 16,7.55 p.m ) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Despatches from Gen. Sherman, 26 miles south of Atlanta, report . that on the 30th ult. he with the main portion of his army left the vicinity of Atlanta, made a detour to the sell% west, crossed the West Point Railway, and after repulsing an attack on his right by the Confederates, who were in force at Jonesborough, occupied the Macon railway, and in terposed his army between that place and Atlanta. On the lat instant he attacked Jonesborough and carried the Confederate works, capturing 1,000 pri soners and 10 cannon. He admits his loss in the action at 1,200, and esti mates that of the enemy at 2,000, including prisoners. The Confederates retired to Loyd oy Station. Sherman followed, but did not renew the attack. In consequence of these operations, Gen. Hood blew np his works at Atlanta, removed or des troyed all material excepting 14 cannon, and during the night retired from the City, but iu what direc- tion does not appear. Oa the following morning, General Slocum, who with the 20th Corps had been left to hold Sherman's communications, occupied Atlanta. Secretary Stanton announces that Early is retreat ing up Shenandoah Valley, followed by Sheridan. Severe skirmishing has occurred over Bunker's hill, Occoquan, and Berryville, but no general en gagement has yet been reported. Richmond journals of the lat report that General Wheeler has burnt the railway bridge over the Tennessee river at London, and captured 900 pri• Boners at Marysville and Newmarket, Mr. Lincoln, under date of the 3rd, tenders the " I think," said the noble lord, " when those who write about the depopulation of Ireland speak of the decrease of the population in Ireland, they ought to bear this in mind that to that extent, at least, the decrease does not represent an emigration out of the country as a whole, but simply a movement from one part of the country to another:'- It is well, certainly, to bear this in mind ; and when we recall the lugubrious remarks which have been made and the disheartening reflections indulged in by many writers and speakers on this subject, the view taken by the noble lord is encouraging, and the more so that it bears upon it the impress of probability. Lord STANLEY takes a hopeful view of the prospects of land in that part of the country where he was. Considering the increase in the value of land both in England and Scotland, there seems no reason to doubt that Ireland will be an exception to the rule. The climate is milder, the soil mcre fertile ; and, taking into consideration the attractions of the country, there seems no reason to doubt that Lord STANLEY'S prognostications will be fulfilled when he predicts that the day will come when there will be many who will be glad to settle down in a place which possesses each prospects and promises of excel lence. Those immediately concerned may draw a moral from one passage in the noble lord's address, that wherein he says that " life and property are as secure in Tipperary as in Middlesex." Surely it is to the interests of all, rich and poor, to do their utmost to bring about a state of things which shall form a striking and decided contrast to the outbreaks that have occasionally disturbed and distracted the kingdom. In the lawless state of the community may too often be found the waLt of prosperity to Ireland. That has been worse than bad harvests, and more injurious than emigration ; but better times may be looked for, and it must be allowed that Lord STANLEY has done his utmost to encourage those whom he ad dressed, and his words will apply with equal force to all parts of the country which they concern, for the spirit of perseverance and the determination to do one's best, are the safest and surest rules by which men may at all times regulate their lives, and pursue their course with success and honour amid all the chances and changes of the world. The Friendless and Fallen, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—Will you permit me to acknowledge the following contributions sent in answer to my appeal in aid of the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution, which you kindly insetted. As nearly every contribution has been sent anonymously there is no other medium by which I can thank those friends who so readily assisted in this time of need, I may add that further help will be gratefully .received, and if name and address be sent, ac knowledgment will be made direct to contributors, and a copy of the prospectus of the institution be returned. Several persons have applied by post for a prospectus, but not having received their full address, I have found it im possible to comply with their request.--I am, Sir, yours obediently, E. W. THOMAS, Secretary. S. 0. Y., Li; " One who has been rescued," Is ; C. N. S., 30s ; A. V., 10.3 ; Anon, 2s 63 ; Lady, £5 ; A. P. L., 2s ; A Trifle, ss; N. G, 53 ; Anon, ls ; A Lady, 245; Mr R. B. 103 ; Mr E. G. 2s 6d ; A Friend, £1 ; Mr H.,£l;R. R. 58 ; P. L., 4s 6d ; T. L. 10s ; E. P, 2s 4d ; Lily, is ; "An Elderly Woman without ample means," Is ; Anoa, 25s ; Anon, 10s. The Oxford Music Hall. In the grand selection from Donizctti's "La Favorita" produced here last evening is to be found another of those brilliant musical displays which at this hall so largely re . fLct the beauties of the entire works. Principals, chorus and band are alike commendable. awl we hear again, in most attractive form, delicious music, for some time pushed aside rather capriciously by Verdi, and lately heard chieflj in the strains of the retreating organ-grinders, The mor ceaux of the selection includes the romance of " Fernando" in the first act —" Una vergin, no angel ;" the duet ' E fla ver ;" the aria of Leonora, " 0 mio Fernando ;" the recita • tivo and romance, " Spirto gentil ;" the introduction and chorus in the first act, "Bell' alba foriera," and the scene and finale to the second act. To those who are familiar with the completeness of the chorus under Mr Jonghmans' baton, it is supeiflaous to speak of the execution of the framework of the selection. Miss Barrie (a rising singer), as Leonora, M. Marini as Fernando, Mr Greene as Alfonso, and M. Marcello as Baldassare, gave the principal airs and concerted pieces with spirit and artistic effect. In the re turn of Miss Russell, the leading soprano, after a brief ab sence, a fine voice is welcomed, which is heard to singular advantage in the music of Marguerite in " Faust." " The' Oxford," since its fusion into a company, maintains its old prestige, Mr Charles Morton, now managing director, being the life and soul of the establishment, just as he was %%hen sole proprietor. Indeed, although the commercial company is "limited," the artistic resources seem to have no limit. Unsworth reigns supreme in the world of mock oratoty, exhibiting a rich 'kaleidescope of non sense, but showing np cant and humbug, or presenting most grotesque aspects of conventional life in almost every word he utters from the "table." Eugene, the musical epicene, is quite a marvel. " His" assumption of the female voice and manner—rudely shat tered by his lightning flashes of the masculine—are the perfection of burlesque,in one of its most difficult and subtle lines. Mr W. Randall, whe is re-introducing his imita tion of the late Mr Robson (with a feeling allusion to the loss the public have sustained by the late event) gives un mistakeable signs of possession of dramatic power. In his Sampson Burr (" Porter's Knot") Mr Randall may be said to " photograph" the late actor in one of his most highly wrought delineations. We are also glad to see Mr Jongh mans breaking fresh ground in reproducing some of the more noted solos and duets (comic and sentimental) scat tered throughout the field of foreign and English opera, Some of the buffo revivals—given with dramatic action, and nut with the mere dry see-saw cf the arms—open up a new source of pleasure to The Oxford audience. A little revo lution is setting in in the musical world, and music seems destined to exercise a more exhilarating influence than ever. It is well, then, not to loss eight of any combinations by which vocal and instrumental music may be rendered at tractive. Two English opera companies are almost on the point of starting, and Mr German Reed has struck a most fantastic, but telling chord in his musical afterpieces— farces set to music, in fact—the idea of which he has felicitously adopted from our sprightly neighbour across the channel. Everything denotes activity in musical circles. The old cry of the " dearth of talent" is reviving, in the straits of rival entrepreneurs to obtain tenors, bari tone:, and sopranos for the forthcoming struggle. Good singers, and even singers of promise, are at a premium in the market; and a species of kidnapping is being resorted to by the Montagus and Capulets of the Haymarket and Bow-street houses, which strikes terror into or elates the hearts of the Concert Hall singers. The competition, how ever, will be good for art; singers of talent will maintain and improve their position—the charlatans will go to the wall. Well may an indignant Unswortb. ask " Where are we now ?" SHOCKING SUICIDE,—On Thursday evening Mr S. H. Church, borough coroner, held an inquest at the canteen of Colchester Cavalry Barracks, on the body of George Knott, private 16th Queen's Lancers, who had committed suicide that morning by shooting himself in his barrack.room with a horse pistol. The jury first proceeded to view the body of the unfortunate roan, who was dis covered lying upon his faco in a pool of blood in the upper story barrack- room o f t h e marr i e d men ' s quarters, w i t h h i s right hand grasping the pistol and his ire finger firmly on the trigger. It was afterwards stated in evidence thathe rose that morning at half-past five o'clock, and went to the stables to clean his horse, when he appeared well and cheerful with two of his comrades. After partaking of breakfast with his wife, who thought he seemed low spi rited and said but little, he went back to his work, but returned home egain, and during the absence of hie wife to clean the troop-room he committed the fatal act, and was found as described between nine and ten, quite dead. Sur geon Ker Fat k, 16th Lancers, upon examining the body discovered that the deceased had discharged the loaded pistol in Lis mouth,•completely blowing away the palate, and causing the ball to enter the brain, thereby causing death. He had been in the IGth Lancers 22 years, and bore the character of a good, steady soldier, and no cause was as sisgned to induce him to commit the rash act. The jury, after hearing the evidence, unanimously returned the ver dict 4, That deceased committed suicide, but there was no evidence to show the state of his mind at the time. He has 1 left a wife and four children. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, FRIDAY —Admissions on payment, 2,024 ; ditto, by season tickets, 677; total yisitors, 2,701, thanks of the nation to Admiral Farragut, Generals Canby, Grbnger, and Sherman, and the forces under their command, for their achievements at Mobile and Atlanta, and, orders salutes to be fired from every arsenal and navy yard in Federal possession in celebration of their victories. He also recommends that a general thanksgiving be offered in all the churches on Sunday next-. The draught which was ordered for the s:h has been postponed, and further time given for the filling of quotas by volunteering, The credits allowed for naval and other recruits not previously accredited has reduced the quota of New York city to 1,114 men, whom it is believed can be speedily supplied without recourse to a draught. Gold opened yesterday at 235, rose to 2431, but closed at 2401. To.day it has been steady at 2411. Exchange, 263. Sixes, registered, 1881, 107 ; Five- Twenties, Coupons, 1101; Seven-Thirties, 1091 ; New York Central, 1281 ; Erie, 1071 ; Illinois Cons tral, 1271. Cotton 1830 to 1853. Breadstuff dul and lower. Provisions improved. Sugars firm Coffee du'l. SEPT. 7, 9.30 A M. Both the Federal and Confederate accounts re port that General Juhn Morgan was surprised at Greenville, Tennessee, on the 4th, himself,killed, and 75 of his command capturoi by Federals under General Silvers. General Rosseau announces that Generals Wheeler and 4.1,1ddy have retired from Nashville and Chatta nooga Railway. No further particulars from Atlanta. Early has taken a strong position west of the Opequan, cover ing Winchester. Mr Stanton states that on Monday Gen. Grant celebrated the occupation of Atlanta by shelling Petersburg. Secretary Seward made a speech at Auburn, New York, on Saturday evening hat in which he de clared that the salvation of the Union depends upon the election of Mr Lincoln ; that slavery is no longer en issue of the war, and will not be inter. fercd with :after peace is restored ; and that the Democratic party is aiding and abetting the rebel- Eon. He also stated that no draught will be neces• sary, as the armies are being recruited as rapidly as required by volunteering. The China takes out 87,675 dols. in specie. The Chicago Convention. If we read these Chicago resolutions, framed and introduced, as is worthy of remark, by the repre sentative of the Federal Senate of a slaveholding State and a native Southerner, although not a favourable type of the Southern statesman, by the light of the deliberations after which they were adopted, it becomes more than ever clear that the keynote of the Democratic policy is conciliation, and this fact is of vasty greater importance than the_ precise phraseology in which that policy is an nounced. There is in the various speeches and ad dresses a significant absence of a threatening alter native. The speakers all profess an implicit confi dence that conciliation will result in reconciliation, and they are silent as to the means to be employed in event of failure, We had fully expected a cer tain amount of " last man and last dollar" oratory, and it is in this, more than in anything else, that the convention has agreeably disappointed us. We venture to say that, for this reason alone, the Con- federate Government and people feel more kindly at this moment towards the Northern Democracy than at any time since the war broke out, and 'vitt meet them with as hearty good - will as it is possible to have for men who still hold the attituie of armed enemies. In keeping with these gratifying indications, to which we direct attention, is the absenc3 from the debates of the convention and from its published resolutions of any allusions, even indirect, to slavery, It is not even casually referred to as a possible ele ment of difficult in the adju,tment of the quarrel between North and South. Nothing could be more eloquent than this silence on a subject which the partisans of the North have to sedulously repre sented as the sole cause and object of the war. It the Democratic party should seize the reins of go vernment, and afterwards unhappily a war fever should again seize upon the minds of the Northern people. they will stand denuded of the last rag of a pretext either to themselves or to the world. Here, then, is another, and perhaps the most hopeful, promise of pesc% Endeavouring to review the action of the Chicago convention without partisan bitterness, and making allowance for its unavoidable shortcomings, we must give it the credit of having done probably the best that could be done under the circumstances. It has at least had the manliness to make an emphatic and solemn avowal of the hopeless failure of the attempt to restore the Union by any other than peaceful means. So wide an abyss as the unprecedented magnitude of this war has placed between the two peoples cannot be jumped at a single bound ; it must be bridged over, and the convention might have' selected a worse foundation and less available materials for the construction of the bridge. We look hopefully, therefore, to the probable success of the Chicago nominees as a heavenasent opportunity for bringing about a peace honourable to both parties, and conducive to the safety and prosperity of both. At the same time it behoves the South to strive harder than ever, and not to allow herself to be beguiled into temporary security or remission of exertions. If it is wise, as Washington said, "in time of peace to prepare for war," it is assuredly not less necessary in this instance " in time of war to prepare for peace." And the true preparation for peace with the North is to enforce by deeds the truth which the North has been so slow to learn— that of the two the South is the better able to pro long the struggle, end that while the North con sumes accumulated resources the South develops exhaustless ones. If we had ambitious wishes of empire far the South we should desire, great as the cost of life would be, another four years of war. self-preservation is its only object, we hope for peace,—lndex. RATT.IVAY EXTENSION IN WALES.—On Thure 'lay the first sod of the Caernarvon and Lianberris Railway was cut by the Hon. Emily 'Wynn. An immense number of people witnessed the interesting ceremony, which passed passed off with much éclat. SOUTH-WESTERN R A ILWAY.—Several journals have erroneously stated that the Hon. It, H. Dutton, M.P., is going to retire from the directory of the London and South.. Western Railway Company. This statement is quite inaccurate; the bon. gentleman will continue to oc cupy his seat at the Lewd. The retiring director, in fact, is Wyndham S. Portal, Esq., for whose place Viscount )3urn M,P., is a candidate- BALL' Italian Loan 67 35 Do, end month 6B Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian A.ustrian .. — Spanish Threes — Rome Debt .. 49 25 Deferred :AIN. Cash. Account. Orleans - BB3 75 .. 887 50 Northern .... Lyons and Mediterranean 920 .. 023 75 Southern 628 75 .. 631 2.5 Western - .. • Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lore bard North of Spain Saragossa 4S7 50 487 50 Ditto to Barcelona 207 50 .. 207 50 Public Executions in France. The late execution of D.,tour for murder and that criminal's revolting behaviour are commented on in terms of great disgust by the Paris Nation, which asks whether the scene witnessed at the final moment is of a nature to produce any edification. in the minds of the spectators. Far from such a result arising, our contemporary considers the whole scene of the execution as profoundly demoralising, and founds on it an argument against capital punish• ment being carried out in public, After describing the conduct of Latour on the scaffold, the writer says, " The crowd remained dumb with stupor, and could not imagine a man insulting death when so near to it. No jests were made to pass away the time, es re cently occurred on the Place de La Itcluette. The gaiety of Latour disconcerted the curiosity of the spectators, and filled them with a sort of terror, It was not a lesson which they beheld before them, but a scandal, a thing without a name, by which in a few hours an entire population may see all the bonds of its faith, morality, and sens e of decency torn asunder. Why were not the criminal and the execution concealed from the public gaze ? We demand closed doors for horrors of the kind. Such blood does not purify—it sullies. Let it be shed far from every eye, if you think it indis pensable that blood should be shed. In whatever manner the condemned man may affront the last punishment, whether in singing or turning pale with terror, there is nothing in the spectacle of a head falling. If the man turns pale, the people say he is a coward ! It he is calm and collected, they say he is courageous ! If he sings and swears like Latour, the people no longer understand; everything in their minds is confounded and mingled together, and the only, impression they can feel is the immoral one of that double outrage to human life which is manifested in that argument of the criminalists who say, in order to justify the punishment of death, that all murderers fear it ? 'There are certainly murderers who fear it, but we know of others now who are scarcely moves by it. These latter must, however, be put to death also; they have a right to the same favour. Then it is that the scaffold becomes the infamous tribune, in which the pinioned man upon whom eternity is casting its shadow displays its hideous infamy, and insults everything that the world holds sacred—from the judge who has con demned him, to God who is about to judge him also. 'What society gains by such a spectacle we cannot say, but we know all that it may lose by it. _ . In the name of religion and morality, and in pre sence of the scandal which has just terrified the populations of the Ariege, we demand that the scaffold should disappear from our public place, and that the last moments of the condemned man, with his proseration before death or his supreme raillery, should be concealed from all. A SOLEMN PROTEST. (From the Law Times of to•day.) One of the cheap daily papers, the lowest happily in its character of purveyor of news, although once it gave pro mise of better things, has adopted a new mode of drawing a penny from the morbidly curious. At the news shops we read, this week, placarded in the largest letters, "Inter view of our correspondent with Muller. Muller's state ment as to the night of the murder." From the paper itself, so far as credit can be given to this kind of information, it might be learnt that the correspondent led the pri soner Muller into a conversation about the nature of his defence and about his possession of the watch and chain, and other matters, including a cross-examina tion as to the mode in which ho procured his passage money. For any purpose of truth or justice such a con conversation is not worth ink and paper. But it is proper to notice how, for the sake of pandering to the lowest appe • tite for such exciting stuff, the humane principle of British law where the commonest prisoner is concerned, much more where one is on the way to a trial for his life, has been slighted from vulgar motives of gain. According to law, a prisoner is never invited to make any statement to any offi car or any one concerned with him, or to any court where he undergoes either his preliminary or his final trial, nor is he allowed to make a statement without a caution that he may be prejudiced by it in evidence. It is true that a statement made to a newspaper correspondent is not likely, unless the correspondent be sublcenaed, to be actually given in evi dence, but the publicity afforded to it causes it to operate on the public, and consequently on the minds of the jurymen. It is easy to caution jurymen to dismiss froea their minds all that they heard or read before they come into court, but as long as men are men the thing is impos sible. A great responsibility rests on those who increase the juryman's difficulty by publicly prejudicing cases. All newspapers which set humanity and lawfulness above sordid pence carefully abstain from thus practically inter fering with the course of justice. When then shall we think of a newspaper which, in the first days of a prisoner's arrest on a capital charge, when his senses are scattered, before he has even had an opportunity of taking counsel with his legal advisers on his defence, or fur considering his position, allcws its correspondent to thrust himself into the prisoner's cell and question and cross-question him on the vital points of his case, or which, at least, instead of reprimanding a correspondent who has done so, publishes conspicuously the disgraceful result. To take a man at such a disadvantage for selfish ends is base and cowardly. There is another evil attending this new mole of pressing prisoners into the service of journalism. The accused has granted the correspondent the favour of an interview, which is highly valued by the correspondent's pa} mas'.ers. Will either they or he be slow to return the favour, if afterwards, by leading articles, or in any other way, dust can be thrown in the eyes of the public—for instance, as to the character of circumstantial evidence brought forward by the prosecution at the trial ? In case of an adverse; verdict, commercial urati , u le will induce the jour nalist to play upon the sympathies of those who are adverse generally to capital punishment. Jurymen will be persuaded to sign pipers that, if they had kr-own so and so at the trial, or if this or that fact were true, they would have given a different verdict. Petitions will be advertised gratis, and be written up before presentation at the Home office, and the Home Minister will be held up to indignation and contempt for not listening to sophistries. The reaction upon journal sm of an unwholesome craving for blood news is capable of very dangerous consequences. We can only trust that on this ground, as well as the ground of humanity, the bad example of the present disreputable attempt to increase circulation will find no tellowere in the decent portion of the press, A Collision off Cape Horn. (From the Record). A correspondent who was a passenger in an Australian ship which narrowly escaped destruction by an iceberg, has furnished us with a graphic narrative of the alarming occurrence , " I was very recently a passenger from Australia to Liverpool on board one of the noblest ships, the Royal Standard, belonging to the celebrated White Star Lice of Packets. We were upwards of ma statute adults on board, exclusive of the captain, offieeter, stewards, and 71 crew, and had as a cargo three thousand hales of wool, and £120,000 worth of gold. Tho first part of our voyage was attended with no particular incident ; of course, there was the usual routine of sea-sickness, the formation of messes,' and the unpacking and the metamorphoses occasioned by changes of dress that are now familiar to all old stagers. After the genial intertropical climate of the Antipodes we rapidly approached the Horn,' when the weather became intensely cold. Morning, noon, and night groups of passengers huddled or crept round the huge funnel of our ship, for we were an auxiliary screw, to gather a little extra warmth. On Sunday, April 3, lat. 56 S, long. 119 W, we saw the first iceberg, and a beautiful eight it was. It was a majestic mzuntain of ice floating along like a mass of burnished silver, about 360 feet high, as ascertained by the sextant, and about two miles in length at the base. As the sun shone full upon it, it presented a splendid appear ance, and as our relative positions altered it assumed a variety of shapes mod fantastic, and lighthouses, cathedrals, churches, &c., were easily conjured up without much stretch of imagination. As we stool, one and all gazing at this Antartic wonder of the deep, some looking at it through their glasses, some sketching it, in their note-books, and all _ . associating with it ideas — of novelty and beauty, no one dreamt that the next day would be one of such awful peril that the total destruction of our ship and all on board appeared inevitable. " Monday, April 4th, opened with thick, hazy weather, and a good breeze, before which we were going, without steam, ten knots an hour, apprehensive of no danger. Suddenly we ran into a dense fog, and almost immediately . ..,, one of the double look-out gave the alarm, ' Broken water ahead I' and almost immediately after, ' Ice c,n the star- board bow I At that moment I was writing the news paper I conducted on board, in the engineer's mess room ; but hearing the noise, and the ominous cry, ' Helm hard a starboard I rushed on deck, and looking over the bul warks saw, to my horror, an immense mountain of ice, towering far above our maintop-gallant mast, which was ND feet about the water-line, and so close to us that any one could have jumped on to it. All hands were imme diately summoned on deck, and everything done to prevent what now appeared inevitable—a collision between cxxr ship and the iceberg. The yards were trimmed, the sails adjusted, and everything done to revent this fearful catastrophe—but in vain. The monster mountain of ice drew nearer and nearer to us, and we drifted nearer and nearer to it. At length the inevitable moment came; one heavy roll of the snip, and the yards of the foremast grated right into the solid mass of ice, tearing out and hurling down upon the deck immense blocks of ice, some of them of enormous size. At the same moment the main and miz n topmast snapped at the cap with tremendous noise, and, being made of iron, hung over with all their gear amidst the rigging, to the great danger of every one on deck. While this was going on the men at the wheel stood faithful to their duty, although one of them had his overcoat rent in two by a lump of ice that fell in front of him, yet it did not touch him. The scene on deck was now indescribable. Loudly were the orders passed fore and aft to the hands, and as heartily obeyed, to adjust the yards and trim the ship so as to help her to forge ahead of the iceberg, many of the passengers rendering good service in this emer gency. Under the forecastle dock were gathered groups of men, pale, silent, awestruck. T wo strong stalwart men had hold of my hands, and with big beads of tears rolling down their checks cried for mercy. Between decks women and children were loud in their passionate cries, and in the intermedieo was an elderly gentleman, a widower, with 5 children, in the agony of woe, expecting his and their im mediate destruction. Still the worst was not come; again the ship's yards crunched into the iceberg; where I stood I looked up and saiv that this mountain of ice actually over hung the ship, standing then 600 feet out of the water. There were two large fissures running from the top a considerable way down,and as the ship rolled oven feared the yards would go into one of these fissures. Had they done so they would have brought down tons of ice that would have sent us to the bottom in a moment. We were spared that doom, but the next instant the foretop• gallant mast, jibboom, foretopsail yard, studding-sail boom, and all their gear went at the next crunch, tearing and splitting the sails to ribbons. At the same time over the forecastle deck came rolling vast torrents of water, flooding the decks and creating a fresh 801117C0 of danger. The Royal Standard was now all but a helpless log, crippled and dismantled, she presented the most pitiable appearance, and with her masts, yards, chains, and ropes all hanging over and dangling about in most dangerous confusion, the marvel is that no one was seriously injured if not killed. " Still the worst was not come, and but for the amzeng strength of her iron hull, all on board must have gone down to the bottom, leaving no record of their fate behind them. Bodily the chip drifted up against the berg, her whole side coming violently into contact with it, and—l quote from the ship's log, lest my account should be regarded as the natural exaggeration of a landsman's fears smashed the starboard lifeboat, carried away the bumpkin, stove in all the starboard bulwarks, stove in the starboard quarter in several places ; also the captain's cabin, and sent the chro nometers flying about, lifting the poop deck beams one foot, thus damaging all the cabins ; and with another heavy crash split our upper plate amidships, and did other sundry damages. At this moment total destruction seemed in• eviteble ; but as the ship still slowly forged a head under main and foresails, hope still remained. At last the end of the berg came in view, and we forged clear. Tne berg ap peared to be cnt,erely enveloped in a dense fog, and about 600 feet high. We passed along about half a mile of it, and from the time of seeing it to clearing it it was about half an hour.' ,‘ So far the ship's log. ' Half an hour ;' yet what a half hour I Who can tell the agony, the suspense, the wild and all but frantic emotions that wore crowded into that 30 minutes ? Buyind the noise of our ship's wreck knccking about, and the orders given to the men, all was silence after the first wild cry of terror and dismay. Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave.' " Pale and trembling men gezed, first at the iceberg ,then at the ship, presenting a picture most desolate, and then at each other ; many shook hands, and bade each other good bye; and all stood, expecting a certain watery grave. For myself, I was too stunned and startled to feel excited ; 1 seemed incapable of any feeling but that of dumb amaze ment. Not a tear came to my relief, not a word escaped my tips. Wife and children I felt I should never see any more —and so, holding a fellow passenger's hand, I calmly awaited the awful moment, the summons to which had come so unexpectedly, and under such fearful circumstances. Meanwhile the captain was shouting to the boatswain— 'De you see the en; of the berg ?' again and again, for all our safety lay in our speedily gaining open sea. At length after many times, Not yet, Sir,' he said, ' Yes, Sir, close by and in another minute we had passed our enemy and were in the open sea once more, " Three loud cheers passed fore and aft, and again we shook each other by the hand, and thanked God for our deliverance. The saloon passengers immediately held a special religious service, and so did the intermeoiete and steerage, and these services were continued daily till our arrival in Liverpool. Never, oftea as I had heard it, did the language of the Prayer -book appear so grandly and solemnly impressive as night after night we met in the saloon, passengers and such of the crew as were off duty , and then, all distinctions merged, reverently bending before Him who in His eternal tenderness had saved us in the hour of sorest peril, we with one heart said, " We . . . . humbly present ourselves again before Thy Divine Majesty to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, for that Thou heartiest us when we called in our trouble, and didst not cast out our prayer, which we made before Thee in our deep distress; even when we gave up all for lost— our ship, our goods, our lives, then Thou didst mercifully look upon us, and wonderfully command a deliverance. For a hundred nights regularly did we meet for wor ship, in addition to our services every Sunday, and the gambling and drinking usages were completely suspended. After our danger was past, then the overpowering rush of feeling came to my relief, nor to me alone ; there were many others—and this is one of the curious psychological facts connected with such strong, sudden excitement—who when the danger was all over, sat and wept and sobbed like children. Happily no life was lost. The ship was a perfect wreck, her beauty and symmetry destroyed, her capacity for a speedy passage across the ocean taken away, and all the high expectations of the captain and passengers of a crack passage dashed to the ground ; but since., skin for skin, yea, all that a man hitth, will he give for his life,' these losses and disappointments sink into insignifieanee when compared pith our merciful deliverance." Our ccrreepondent gives, in coeclu,ion, some verses written by a passenger, embodying in poetic form the facts of the appalling collision, and pointing the moral of the scene. These lines were copied out eagerly by the Gor man, Swiss, and French passengers, and ere this have found their way through vat icus parts of the Continent. As, however, they would scarcely interest general readers, we omit this portion of our correspondent's communication, HORSEWHIPPING A GOVERNMENT CLERK.—A few days ngo a somewhat extraordinary case oc curred in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. It appears that while the clerks in the Royal Gun Factories were at their mina avocations one of the ofll,:es was entered by a well known officer of Itoyal Artillery, accompanied by a friend who had a good stout horsewhip. The gallant captain de l:clan:led an immediate apology from one of the clerks for alleged impertinent conduct towards his daughter, who, it appears, was escorted home from a party by the accused clerk on the previous night. The requited apology was refused, whereupon the indignant sou of Mars applied the horsewhip in a vigorous manner upon the back of the offender in the presence of his brother clerks and other persons she, were attracted to the spot, but did not inter , tere with this summary infliction of punishment. m) nal Tff * ' czE HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Sept. 15. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived at the Castle yesterday from Norway, having disembarked from her Majesty's ship Racoon at Bruntisland, in the Frith of Forth, proceeding by railway to Aberdeen and Aboyne. His Royal Highness was attended by Major Cowell. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, 5c4 companied by Prince Alfred and the Hon. Harriet Phipps. The Hon. Sir Fi ederick Bruce arrived at the Castle yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Princess Mary were t 3 hive arrived at Paris yesterday from visiting their Royal llighnesaes the Grand Duke h nd Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the King of Hanover, end other relatives in Germany. The royal duke and princess are expected to arrive in town this evening from the Continent. The Duke of Rosbui•ghe arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Copenhagen, yesterday morning ; the duchess arrived the previous evening from Floors Castle. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland left Staf• ford House, St, James's, yesterday, on a visit to tha Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess cf Wilton left Lard Willoughby de Eresby's seat in Perthshire some days since for Granton, near Edinburgh. The countess proceeded to Heaton Hall by land ; the noble Earl went round in big yacht. The Countess Russell and family, on leaving Lockwood, on the borders of the Windermere, on Wednes day last, proceeded to North Berwick, near Edinburgh. Count Neseeirode has arrived at Maurigy'e Hotel from Paris. Hie Eteelleney Conde do Farrobo Joaquim bas left Maurigy's hotel on a visit to Earl Brownlow at Bcllo ll House, Grantham. Lincolnshire. Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wiiton hate been among the visitors at Doncaster during tho week, and to-day they proceed on a visit to Sir George and Lady Julia , - Nombwell at their seat in Yorkshire. Viscount BAlsamo has left Maurigy's Hotel for Lisbon. Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham have arrived in town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Gordon Castle, N.B. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Colonel Taylor, M.P., has arrived at MaurigY'e Hotel from Balbriggan Castle, Ireland. Cardinal Wiseman is at present sojourning of Eastbourne, in the neighbourhood of which his property 11 situate, His eminence has taken a house in Cavendish' place, DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS HARDINGE.—The intul" ligence of the death, so prematurely, of Viscountess Har" dinge will be learnt with regret by a large circle. T ll° lamented lady died on Thursday at South Park, Penshurtti Kent, having been confined on the Ist inst. This amiably and charitable lady, who was born in 1835, was the second and youngest daughter of George, Earl of Lucan, by LOY Anne Brudenell, third daughter of Robert, sixth Earl of Cardigan. She married 10th April, 1856. By her marriago with the present Viscount she leaves a numerous family' The Countess of Lucan, her mother, was present at be t dissolution, A Choral Festival of 5,000 voices will be held at the Crystal Palace on Saturday next, the 24. 11 inst., under the direction of Mr G. W. Martin, The fic 3t part of the programme will consist cf choruses. anthc ols l and chorale—the second part of madrigals, national pa" songs, &c , some of which are in four treble parte, and wi ll be sung by 1,000 treble voices to a part. Her Majesty bas graciously accorded to Mr Martin permission to include in the programe e chorale composed by the late lamented Prince Consort. In order that all classes may have an opportunity of being present, the charge of admission b ag been reduced to one shilling, being the only shilling Sal tlr ; day in the year. Excursion parties are now being organ ise ' from various parts of the country ; Saturday afterno on being a general holiday, large employers of labour will no doubt arra.;ge for the visit to the Palace of their cmpt'oYe s ; the training colleges and other educational institutions will be largely represented, and altogether it is anticipated t ha t this will b, in every sense of the word, a people's ch° l3 festival. RAILWAY READENG.—R.tiIway reading is a prat' two almost peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon n ature' If, in travelling on the Continent, you see a fellow pess cir ger reading a book, you may give considerable odds that ilde is a countryman of your own. The Germans are said, 0 , we believe with truth, to read more than any people In he world; but they hardly ever read in a railway carriage" You may go through the whole length and breadth of ihe t Fatherland without seeing a bookstall at any station e 2 te eP , those which are especially frequented by English tou rist "; It is only at a few of the German metropolitan termini you can ever get newspapers. We remember, at the ° it burst of the Schleswig-Holstein war, at a time when t' Germany was in a state of passionate excitement for ne l%' , of the expected attack on the Dannewerke, travel lii3 r for a long weary day's journey from Cologne Hamburg, withamburg, and not being able to m ee t with single roadside newspaper. There was no demand, We pose, and therefore no supply. In Denmark, Sweden, I te ' l3 .. Russie, and Swilz:rland, railway reading, in our Eng llB- 0 sense of the word, is utterly unknown. In France 81° , 11 g and French Belgium is there anything at all approae llij3 i, to our system. On the main French lines newspaper retire ing is very common, and at all the great stations there th e bookstalls. Of course there must be people who WI '7 O books, or else they would not be offered for sale. Bu t ° ta t own experience—a pretty considerable one in contin o '4 travelling—would lead us to suppose that the sale was sre li r g small compared with the number of travellers. The b e°- c i, bought are purchased, we fancy, by travellers to r e 'l ,4 at home—not to read on the journey; and tb • impression is corroborated by the fact that, e t n o railway bookstall in France, you see exactly the °9 z ;:s books that you find in any respectable art; in the towns. In North America, on the other hand/ J - 0 $ see in railway literature, as in. moat other things, an e ll° o o exact counterpart of our English system, carried out' r 9 usual, with somewhat more go-aheadness. Almost eler to railway traveller in the Northern States has something r , read with him. Throughout the whole length of the j ° „ nu the newsboys pass constantly through the cars, net.dir'd ing, besides the papers, an assortment of cheap novels ht, magazines. If you aro not disposed to buy at first elg i you are tempted to do so by an ingenious device. 'r e eit lays down by your side two or three of his books, and 1 e44. them there for half an hour or so. You are weleet e La take them and turn over the leaves, and return thou W e ' ot t called for, without paying a cent. But the hope is 0 2 ° i tD o will grow interested in the story, and purchase it i wherliit, boy comes round again ; and this hope is very often . filled.—Thu Reader. Of Dapie SINGULAR STORY.—A boy giving the t he Henry Goodwin recently made application 1 ° Briggs Ironworks, Lanesborough, for work, and, ell l/°-- 0° they were not in need.of help, he pleaded so hard tha t - c e, ployrnent was finally given him. His superior intel li g e o modesty, and freedom from profanity and coarsenes s ' 1 ,0 his great industry all conspired to win the favour , employers, who spoke of it to several gentlemen of t he o, to „r lage,who also became interested in his appearance. D' . '" A 1 0 after commencing work he was taken ill, and repairs ben Munson's Ho!el, where in order to be apart from the ° : l eti boarders, he had a bed in the garret. The care he rec el ' i ,eo was not the best, and the patient grew rapidly worse, a physician was finally sent for, who wished to ei 8P ;i11 0 him, but, Henry objecting, the doctor did not insist. 00t next day the doctor found him insensible, and tilP t iell s hopeless, and on examination di s covered that his P s a in - was a woman. During the night the patient contin u e sensible or deranged, and died in the morning'. P c t ye quest was held, at which it was ascertained 018' 0 deceased had worked for a Air. Barton, in Dalt(toots farming, then came to Pittsfield and worked for '61)8 Shepardson, farming, at 1 dol. 50e, a day, but left, tit s could not do haying. She then applied for work B o r ironworks in Lauesborough, and with the sad r esul t t ale rated above. The Pittsfield ogle says that everyWl' er° olo conducted herself with extreme modesty and .x propriety', per showed great industry. From letters found amon ," t ffts, she appears to have been the wife of l'eejoio Underhill, a soldier or officer in Battery D, Ist 0 5ec oo r Heavy Artillery, lately stationed at Fort Jackso P 'lol ol New 0, leans. The letters are addressed "De ar n he r a nd Children." The first ones speak of having 08tegli) money, with some doubt in one case whether it was 1 0 ' to ro delivered. The late ones speak of want, not having t oOr e, , paid, sickness, .Sc 3 , and at least intimate a request t ur e o' money. She sent money away at two differen t tin' least—probably to her husband, and perhaps to lierliej dren—and there seems little doubt that she aestil B , difTniee in order to propuro more remunerative Wu'," die,l from over exertion for there she loved. A a ue ori,e tS knife, ground very sharp, was found among h°l:salt and was doubtless intended for defence against l l ' L'octoi (American) Journal. TIIE REPORTED NEW CONFEDERATE — 0, 0 0 \Vo are able to state positively that the project ofederist loan, based on cotton, to be offered to the co rl o, 110 States, as suggested in certain advertisements wi l . l ie jge ° recently appeared, is started without the kti'''' vco i countenance of the Cunfeihaate lievernment. S e bLu itte jeers of new loans have at differen t times been 611r.,they and the Congress,has invariab l y d eclined to enterta bog It is extremely improbable that this policy will hi , during the continuance of the Ws.r,— ,111(16v,